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Good question! The real, actual answer is that games take a long time to make and are very expensive. So while Ubisoft’s various teams work on new entries in the series, like Hexe, the publisher had Ubisoft Singapore (Skull and Bones) develop a remake of one of the most popular games in the series. It’s a safe bet in an industry currently paralyzed by risk. But Ubisoft also says that it wanted to remake Black Flag because it made sense in 2026. Here’s Paul Knight, the game’s director, explaining why the remake is happening via a recent interview with Kotaku: “If you just ignore the number—Assa

Yup! Ubisoft has added a lot of new content to Black Flag‘s upcoming remake. There are around six hours of new content, according to Ubisoft, including new missions, ship officers to recruit, new cutscenes, and an expanded endgame.

Rayman Legends Retold is a complete, from-the-ground-up 3D remake of the original Legends game, first released over a decade ago on Xbox 360 and PS3, and later ported to other platforms. It features new voices and cutscenes, an expanded narrative, and new levels and enemies, while also bringing back the original levels, including the musical ones, as well as co-op and mini-games. It’s just that the old levels look very different. The remake is built in Snowdrop, the same engine that powers The Division 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. But while Ubisoft is calling this a 3D remake of Legends

Black Flag Resynced is a full-blown remake of the classic Black Flag. It is built from the ground up using the same tech that powered 2025’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows. Ubisoft confirmed with Kotaku that this new remake contains zero code, assets, or files from the original Black Flag. It is a brand new game that is trying to be a faithful remake of the original, while adding some new content and making some big and small changes.